Juan F. Louis Hospital details $686.6M FY2026 budget, cybersecurity recovery and reconstruction timeline

Juan F. Louis Hospital (JFL) presented to the Legislature’s Committee on Budget, Appropriation, and Finance on Aug. 15, 2025, asking lawmakers to sustain operating support as it completes recovery from a recent cyberattack and advances a multi-year demolition-and-rebuild program.

JFL Chief Executive Officer Darlene Baptiste told senators the hospital’s draft FY2026 operating budget totals $686,600,000, a roughly $85.2 million increase over FY2025, and said the governor’s recommended general‑fund appropriation of $30,250,000 remains a vital portion of the facility’s revenue mix (about one‑third of total public support). Baptiste said hospital leaders have also requested ongoing capital and mitigation support tied to reconstruction and to repair and sustain interim facilities.

The cyber incident in April 2025 remains a major operational and financial challenge, hospital officials said. IT director Roger Moore described a ransomware event that encrypted 166 virtual servers and triggered an incident command response across internal teams and partners including the Office of the Governor, Bureau of Information Technology, the territorial emergency management agency and external hospitals. JFL estimated an early revenue loss of about $675,791 in the first 10 days, and reported roughly $428,935 of manpower costs to run incident‑command through July (excluding overtime). CEO Baptiste told senators a “phased Operation Reboot” aims for full system restoration by September 2025, while temporary manual billing efforts have produced partial claim submissions and limited collections.

Finance staff provided senators details about revenue trends and cash flow: net patient revenue for Oct 2024–Mar 2025 was…